Using Fejo

Using Fejo hits different because Vanessa is not here for the alien romance trope and she knows it. She has a plan, she has walls ten feet high, and Fejo just cheerfully scales every single one. The tension between her guilt over using him and her growing feelings is genuinely painful in the best way. Victoria Aveline writes sci-fi romance that feels effortless - the worldbuilding never bogs down the emotional core.